Real Estate

About 30 years ago, I was sitting at a palapa bar in Playa del Carmen waiting for the ferry to...

Diocletian was on to something. After more than two decades as emperor of Rome, during which time he'd put down...

We're in a frothy situation... Right now, the United States is one of the most overheated property markets in the...

We have named Portugal's Algarve region as the world's best place to live or retire overseas for eight years running....

Getting onto the property ladder has always been one of the safest and best ways of securing long-term wealth. Buying...

The overseas property market is booming, and now is a better time than ever to invest in real estate. Offshore...

I'm most of the way through Alain De Botton's "The Consolations Of Philosophy." It's an entertaining collection of teachings from...

How can you fund the purchase of your second home or investment property in a foreign country? First, you need...

Lief and I spent last week online with hundreds of your fellow Live and Invest Overseas readers talking about why,...

When investing in real estate abroad, buyers are often preoccupied researching real estate prices, health care facilities, and quality of...

This month we introduce our first-ever Global Property Investment Index. It’ll be an annual affair. The objective is to present...

Northern Belize is an area of mainland Belize made up of the districts of Corozal, Orange Walk, and parts of...

We’ve been spending a lot of virtual ink lately reminding you of the benefits of owning property overseas... I tend...

When we arrived in Waterford in 1998 and decided we wanted to own a home of our own there, we...

What’s the most important factor when considering a potential rental property purchase overseas? The pleasure potential for you and your...

Cash is king, right? Not really. It’s cash flow you should care about. Cash flow is critical to most aspects...

Any global real estate investment portfolio should include at least one rental property. A rental investment won't make you rich,...

Buying to flip is a common real estate investment strategy in the United States that doesn’t make sense in most...

In 2012, Lief and I bought an apartment in Medellín, Colombia. It was nearly 400 square meters in an architecturally...

Years ago, my mother knew a lady named Janet who bought a small piece of land on the southwestern coast...

Leverage is a key tool in every U.S. property investor’s kit. As late-night TV real estate investment gurus with courses...

This spring, my family has planted more vegetables in our garden than ever before. We don’t expect to be able...

"But haven't we done this already? “Haven't we already bought an old stone house surrounded by mud? Isn't that what...

Rights of possession is a term that dates back to Spanish colonial rule. Today the term is utilized in real...

Owning a piece of real estate in a foreign country doesn't only give you the opportunity to diversify. Depending on...

I was an average, non-professional stock investor. I made plenty of money up until 1999—when anyone could do it—and lost...

Given a budget of US$150,000, how would you start your global property portfolio? Each year at our annual Global Property...

You do not need a jet-set budget to take advantage of the world's number-one wealth-building strategy. I’m talking about opportunities...

If you want to find the best beaches in Central America, follow the surfers. You don’t need to be a...

Buying real estate overseas is fundamentally about diversification. This is true whether you buy for investment or for retirement and...

We’re speaking this week about how to purchase real estate overseas, sharing hard-won wisdom and decades of experience to help...

"I've told the buyer from Dublin that the other buyer, the gentleman from Cork, is considering by how much he'd...

Properties shape us more than we know. Settling into my new apartment here in Paris stirred up memories of all...

There are two reasons to purchase real estate overseas... First, because you have moved there and you decide you want...

In a make-or-break year like 2021, it’s critical to make the smartest possible investment choices. Property is a safe bet,...

Whenever I tell people that I live in Puerto Vallarta, I hear, “Isn’t it really touristy?” The short answer is...

Renovating a property overseas is something many of us dream about. But I can't go any further without asking you...

You know, of course, that you can gain from your property purchase when there’s a strong currency advantage. But this...

This is my sixth year in Mexico, and I’ve never seen real estate action like I’m seeing now. And the...

While I feel very lucky to wake up in my new Portuguese home every morning, it took more than good...

I'm looking forward to helping MC this week's Live and Invest in Mexico Virtual Event, but, stuck over here in...

We dollar-holders have enjoyed increasing buying power abroad each year since 2013, with every year eclipsing the last. Procrastinators and...

Thinking about making an overseas property purchase can arouse feelings such as excitement, fear, anxiety, relief, and accomplishment. Even seasoned...

This is my fifth winter as a part-time expat in Mexico. After having lived and spent extended time in countries...

Durango is my favorite spot for full-time city living in Mexico. In fact, I consider this city my most exciting...

As of this writing, more than 11.5 million American and Canadians live overseas… And 2 million of them—nearly 20%–live in...

Among the new trends we faced last summer in Ireland, a country home being snapped up by a foreign buyer...

One of the best ways to generate cash flow from a property investment is through rental yields. But sometimes, keeping...

Whether you are simply exploring this beautiful Central American country, or snow-birding for the winter months, or moving on a...

I didn’t realize it at the time, but, when I bought a pre-construction apartment on Panama City’s Avenida Balboa 17...